I’ll go first.

3 options

  • Going back to 1964 to watch the Duke Ellington’s Montreal show. Try to meet the man and the musicians. Hang around my city.
  • Go in the end of the 70s to meet my parents before they had kids. Grab a couple of beers and party with my young adults parents. See my uncles, etc. in their young time
  • Going to 1881 during the couple of days when Nietzsche wrote Zarathoustra. I want to discuss with guy even if he is supposed to be writing all day long. No consequence right.

What are yours?

EDIT: I’ll clarify: You can’t affect the timeline. It means you cant go back to try to get rich with stocks, lottery, etc. It’s like going to see a movie, when you come back the world will be exactly the same. You can interact with people, but in the end, the day you spend in the past will not have existed for anyone but you, in your memories.

  • WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world
    23·
    5 months ago

    Initially I read that as “you can go back in time for 24 hours” and thought why would 24 hours ago be that interesting? :)

    So my initial answer is: Not eating the late night burger I had last night.

    My final answer is: San Francisco in the 60s/70s to hang out with the Dead and all the other amazing artists of that time. Maybe see a show at the Fillmore.

    • misterdoctor@lemmy.world
      41·
      5 months ago

      What if you went back and the dinosaurs all just spoke perfectly understandable English but with a British accent? Nobody would ever believe you when you came back since “all of the science” suggests that dinosaurs didn’t speak modern English with British accents.

  • KammicRelief@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 months ago

    I’d try to meet the Buddha, and see if he could shed some of that instant enlightenment on me. In the stories, he seemed to be able to say just the right thing to people to wake them up out of the matrix.

    My first answer was “buy Apple stock” but no effect on the time line probably means I don’t make any money. (well wait, what about enlightenment then, does that come with me?)

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 months ago
    • Going back to slavery and beat some slave masters
    • Meet my mom when she was younger, maybe in high school. Tell her that she seems like a lovely young lady and very smart. I don’t think she heard that enough.
    • Go back to the first day I got my first cat.
    • I would like to see a royal party of some kind.
    • Go to a Shakespeare play while he was still alive.
    • Go back to where my grandma alleges she met Bill Cosby to confirm if it’s true, and, if so, punch him because apperently he was rude as hell.
  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    (Assuming that “no consequence” also means that I won’t die on the trip…)

    • Witness the Tunguska impact.

    • See a Beatles show when they were just some small time dudes playing in a crummy club.

    • Visit the Great Exhibition of 1851 and go inside the Crystal Palace

  • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    5 months ago

    Assuming no consequences means I won’t die, or catch a disease or something, I’d go back like a hundred million years or so to look at dinosaurs.

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    5 months ago

    I would prefer to go back in time literally 24 hours and HAVE consequences.

    I would not eat the food that likely gave me food poisoning.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 months ago

    I’d like to go back many times to earlier in my life and try different dialogue options.

    Like that time you thought of the perfect comeback two days later?

    Or just learn how people act and react. If I say this, they react that way. Now if I say that how do they react?

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    3·
    5 months ago

    Camera in hand, time to visit Chavín lands! They’re one of the earliest recognizable societies of the Peruvian Andes. Given that a language barrier would be true for pretty much any “too far back” visits, might as well go with one that I’m really damn curious about!

  • GingaNinga@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 months ago

    I think it’d be neat to go to like 10,000 BC and just live a day in the life of some tribe/ancient city.

  • Punkie@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    Probably see the dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous. Just before the KT extinction. I want to know how accurate we are about what dinosaurs looked like. All we know are from the bones and some fossilized skin and feathers here and there. I bet there are a TON of animals we don’t even know about because they were never fossilized. What did the T-Rex use their little arms for? Were dinosaurs covered with waddles, weird skin flaps, some hairy stuff, and what color were they? For comparison, if we drew modern animals like we draw dinosaurs from just their skeletons: